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From: jmoore@opus.UUCP (Jim Moore)
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Subject: Re: an old idea whose time has come again
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 23:23:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 23:23:52 1985
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I remember the old Quazar 98000 built back in the early teens. This
clunker only had .5Gigabyte of main memory and 3Terabytes of secondary storage
using an antiquated bubble memory device. The speech recognition system
had a tiny 50,000 word vocabulary that only understood English and the
most common European languages. On top of all this, it was crippled with
a 1,500MIP cpu. If you needed to cross reference the library of Congress,
you might as well go get a cup of coffee while it limped along.

We bought these beasts because the Quazar company had gone out of business
and it was all we could afford. It is amazing how much work people can get done
with such archaic equipment when developement schedules and budgets are tight.

(This note was uncovered in a layer that is carbon dated between 2100 and 2300
A.D.)